Universal #1926
Legacy number: 1926
| Number | 1920 |
| Original | Only languages that distinguish tense and/or aspect in their verbal morphology will be likely to have an indicative-subjunctive distinction in complementation. |
| Standardized | IF verbs are inflected for tense and/or aspect, THEN there is an indicative-subjunctive distinction in complementation, and vice versa. |
| Keywords | tense, aspect, mood, indicative, subjunctive, complementation |
| Domain | inflection, syntax |
| Type | mutual implication |
| Status | achronic |
| Quality | statistical |
| Basis | languages surveyed in Noonan 1985 |
| Source | Noonan 1985: 51 |
Discussion
Notes
Cf. ##273, 676.
Comment
Cf. <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=273"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">, <a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=676"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">.
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